To get buy-in from management, who had no knowledge of design systems, required several boardroom presentations describing the ‘who, what, why, when (and how much?)’ plus the financial and efficiency benefits.
Of the available options, I chose a multi-library model to bring scalability and structure to the implementation. A 'Core plus Federated' library model was developed. A modern front-end framework was chosen in collaboration with the development teams.
The enterprise has many divisions working on multiple sub-brands and digital products. As such, the core brand tokens, typography and components are separated from the division-level components. This way, the brand DNA would always remain fixed but the product teams could own and scale their own component libraries autonomously.
Of course an enterprise design system must be scalable and easily adopted by the business. I produced extensive documentation so du's Design System can be maintained and advanced by anyone.
Once the tokens were setup in Figma, and the front-end framework was adopted, we exported all design rules to Storybook so the development team could synchronize their styles and widgets with the design team.